APRNEWS - The World Bank may suspend funding to Tanzania after expressing concerns about new legislation which would punish anyone who questions official statistics.

The global lending institution says the law would undermine the production of useful and high quality data.

APRNEWS - At least ten Tanzanian army reservists were killed on Thursday when their overcrowded and dilapidated bus overturned in the south of the country, police and witnesses said. The army had rented the bus to transport 210 reservists to a training camp when it crashed in Igodima in Mbeya region.

APRNEWS - Rights groups in Tanzania criticised the behaviour of the police on Saturday after a woman was forced to give birth unassisted at a police station.